How to remove members

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Published : April 8, 2005 | Updated : August 17, 2005

After a protection group is created, you may determine that some or all of the data sources in the protection group no longer need to be protected. To stop protecting data, remove the members that you no longer want to protect from the protection group. To delete a protection group altogether, you must remove all the members in the protection group. Removing all members will automatically delete the protection group.

To remove members

  1. In DPM Administrator Console, click Protection on the navigation bar.

  2. In the Display pane, select the protection group member that you want to remove.

    Note

    You can select multiple members and remove them at the same time.

  3. In the Actions pane, click Remove from group.

  4. Verify that you want to remove the member displayed in the Remove Members dialog box.

    If you decide not to remove the member, click Cancel at the bottom of the dialog box.

  5. In the Replica and shadow copies eligible for deletion area, in the Delete column, check all volumes for which you want to delete existing replicas and shadow copies.

    If you retain the replica and shadow copies for an inactive protection group member, you can recover data from the retained shadow copies.

  6. Click Remove Members at the bottom of the dialog box.

    After you click Remove Members, you cannot cancel this action.

To delete a protection group

To delete a protection group, remove all members from the protection group by using the "To remove members" procedure described earlier in this topic.